Resume

Adam Thodey 

Business Development at the Data Diplomat LLC

Great Denver Area | Aviation and Aerospace | Marketing Services

Summary

Experienced systems engineer with an eye for the whole picture and seeing what needs to not fall through the cracks.

Experienced CEO with the ability to market and increase sales.

Experience

Data Diplomat LLCData Diplomat LLC, Denver, Colorado
Owner/Business Development/Bookkeeper
May 2011 – Current

• Business Development
• IT, Website development and Maintenance
• Technical Support
• Hiring, Scheduling, Staff Development
• Accounting Functions

Provide Back-end website design, support and programming.  All Business Development functions including networking, sales calls, and sales management.

Purple Avocado Catering, Denver, Colorado
Owner/President
Feb 2004 – May 2010

• Sales and Marketing
• IT, Website development and Maintenance     
• Event Planning, Design
• Hiring, Scheduling, Staff Development

Increased Sales at least 50% each year since 2005 and revenue scheduled at least $750,000 in 2010.  Worked with sales staff to develop sales resources and leads and put in a process that would ensure a continuous feed of new sales while maintaining the current sale that we have.  Networked well with many different folks as different networking events to bring in business and develop relationships to garner business referrals.  

Worked with kitchen staff to ensure food costs were in line with our projected costs. Worked with our delivery staff to ensure on-time deliveries and the set-ups were consistent.  I worked with our office staff to support our sales team and to effectively take orders for our corporate clients. 

Created and maintained our web presence while executing different marketing strategies, including monthly postcard mailers to current clients, Google Pay-Per-Click campaign and search engine optimization.  Prior to selling, I was working on defining the company in the social media arena.  Also marketed and allowed clients to order online at www.orderboxedlunches.com.  This increase visibility online and ability to promote another portion of the business

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colorado
Aerospace Engineer
May 2003 – June 2006

• Deep Impact Project:   Ground Systems Engineer, Mission Support Area Developer
• Kepler Project:          Database Manager and Ground Systems Engineer

Provided Ground System Support by learning a new ground system when I was first hired. I worked with JPL on learning AMMOS quickly through their AMMOS support team.  I was tasked to put together a mission support area, with communications, computers, and count-down/count-up mission clock and provided on launch support in the mission support area.  I also provided test support on the floor in the clean room as well as other test facilities at Ball.  Occasionally I would work with the software developers in fixing software bugs and updating the database as needed from tests.

I worked with the development team as the database manager on developing the test benches for Kepler, which would also be used for flight.  The testing of the database and the test benches as well as testing on the test benches, provided useful results in helping scope out the telemetry and command requirements for the project.

Lockheed Martin, various locations
Hardware Engineer
Oct. 1998 – May 2003

• Regression Testing of SITS software, Test Development and Quality Control Interface
• System Maintenance & Enhancements
• Wide-Field Camera 3 (WFC3) Database Manager
• Property Management and Tracking
• Customer Interactions

Responsible for interfacing with Quality Assurance in the release process of our test system for the Hubble Space Telescope Science Instrument clients.  I worked with QA to ensure that each release passed its regression  test as well as any specific functional requirements, including change request software tests to make sure the change were effectively made and did not have any other effect on the system.  I also made changes and tested those changes requested by our clients.  As part of my duties, I was responsible for managing the rewriting of our user’s manual, from concept and design to print and updates for each release.

Managed and tracked all test system hardware.  As part of the management of equipment I was responsible for selling and coordinating the delivery of many of the old test system equipment to NOAA including packaging, shipping and paper work to transfer the equipment from NASA’s control to NOAA’s control.  I was also responsible for finding the program that did take possession of the equipment and found a way for that program to pay for the transfer of such assets.

I relocated to Boulder, Colorado to Work with Ball Aerospace as an on-site support person for our test system. I was responsible for creating the telemetry and commands database for Wide Field Camera 3 as well as testing science instrument software for release to be used when the instrument was installed on Hubble.

Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Graduate Student Researcher
July 1997

• Studies resulted in authoring paper: Correction of Atmospheric Effects and Extraction of Reflectance Spectra using the ATREM Computer Code

Embedded the ATREM code, developed at University of Colorado, into ENVI to get true ground reflectance on images in multi-spectral images obtained by the DSTO to then analyze the resulting image for specific targets.

University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI
Various Positions
Sept 1994 – May 1998

Graduate Student Instructor                                                                                                              Sept. 1997 – May 1998

• Introduction to Computing Course (C and MATLAB programming)

Graduate Research Assistant, Space Physics Research Laboratory                                                  Nov. 1996 – Dec. 1997

• Member of the TIMED Doppler Interferometer (TIDI) project team.

Academic Peer Advisor,  College of Engineering                                                                              June 1995 - May 1996

• Assisted students with the adjustment to university life and academically advised students

Administrative Assistant to Professor, Chemical Engineering Department                                      Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1995

• Authored a chapter on HTML programming for The Macintosh, the PC, and UNIX Workstations textbook
• Prepared Chemical Engineering Conference Proceeding for Publication

Lab Assistant/Grader,  Chemical Engineering Department                                                                Sept. 1994 - Dec. 1995

• Tutored, assisted students in computer programming and use of computers;
• Graded FORTRAN assignments and exams.

• Masters of Engineering in Space Systems, May 1998
• Masters of Engineering in Applied Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Systems, May 1998
• Bachelor of Sciencein Aerospace Engineering, May 1996.

MonashUniversity, Melbourne, Australia. Visiting Student, Faculty of Engineering, July 1993 - June 1994.

Edison Computech High School, Focus on Math, Science and Computers, Diploma 1992.

Summer Science Program, Astronomy Program to calculate the orbit of an asteroid. Results were submitted to the IAU Minor Planet Center, Participant 1991

Digital Image Processing: ArcView, ArcInfo, IDRISI, NIH Image, ER Mapper, TNT, TransCAD, Desktop Mapping System

Programming Languages: C, FORTRAN, MATLAB, TCL, HTML, CSS, Java, Javascript, PHP

CAD and Laboratory Software: LabTech Notebook, SDRC I-DEAS Master Series

Other Engineering:  Sigma Plot, Visio, MathCAD, ClarisDraw/ClarisCAD, Deltagraph

Business Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Powerpoint, PageMaker, WordPerfect, Open Office, CaterEase, QuickBooks, FrameMaker

NASA Group Achievement Award for Kepler Launch and Commissioning Team, 2009.
Cherry Creek Arts Festival Culinary Judge 2009.
Entrepreneur of the Year 2008, Colorado Denver Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
Culinary Best of Show 2007, Cherry Creek Arts Festival.
NASA Public Service Group for Deep Impact 2005.
Roger B Chaffee Scholarship Fund Award Dinner featured Guest Speaker  April 2005.
Roger B Chaffee Planetarium, Van Andel Museum, Grand Rapids, Guest Lecturer April 2005
Order of the Engineer, April 1998.
Peer Advisor Service Award, 1996.
National Residence Hall Honorary, 1995. 
Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouts, May 1992.
California Teen Leadership Program, 1992.
National Science Foundation Young Scholar, 1991.
MVP, Edison/Computech High School Swim Team, 1990.

Representative, Denver Jewish Community Relations Council, 2011-present.
Member, Colorado Film and Video Association, 2004-2010.
Member, Lyons Chamber of Commerce, 2009- present.
Member, Arvada Chamber of Commerce 2004- 2010.
Member, Denver Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce 2004-2010.
Member, Lakewood Connections, Business Network International, 2007-2009.
Member, Rocky Mountain Rainbeaus, Square Dance Club of Denver, CO, 2002-2004.
Member, Hix N Chix, Square Dance Club of Longmont, CO, 2005-2007.
Member, Denver SQUID Swim Team, 2002 -present.
Member, City of Rockville Water Polo Team, 1999-2001.
Member, Sierra Club, 1999-present.
Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 1998-present.
Unit Commissioner, Boy Scouts of America, 1996-1998.
Member, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1997-present.
Member, University of Michigan Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (UM-SEDS), 1996-1998.
President, University of Michigan Amateur Radio Club, 1993-1996.
Member, University of Michigan Solar Car Team, 1992-1995.
Member, University of Michigan Water Polo Team, 1992-1996.
Representative, Residence Halls Association, 1994-1996.
Member, Monash University Water Polo Team, 1994.
Executive Board, Monash University Swim Club, 1994.
Rotary International Youth Exchange, 1990.
Student, Geeveston District High School, Geeveston, Tasmania, Australia, US Summer 1989